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[EuchreJack]

Wow, which country were you playing?

My computer doesn't seem to like Victoria 3.  I'll probably wait for an update before trying it again.

[Great Order]

Wow, which country were you playing?

My computer doesn't seem to like Victoria 3.  I'll probably wait for an update before trying it again.

Krakow -> Poland -> Poland-Lithuania -> Commonwealth (Got to finish off a P-L journal entry, make the choice to claim Ukrainian lands. Once you've taken them you get Byelorusian and Ukrainian as primaries and become the Commonwealth)

Went back to Vintage Story, chucked in a few mods. Chief among them, Combat Overhaul.

Found a bronze falx. Not a bad find for day two, needless to say it became my primary weapon. However I kept getting near-killed by the millions of hyenas around my base because it has no reach, so I figured why not, I'll make some spears to huck. Just flint but eh, it's fine.

Turns out, hyenas have slashing resistance but no pierce resistance. Also the spears in CO have much more realistic levels of reach. I spent a whole day engaging in a hyena massacre and now I've got loads of animal products. Guess I'll be sticking with polearms.

[Great Order]

I finally, finally, *finally*, got a perfect run on Spellcheck. Usually just one or two words trip me up, sometimes because the AI voice adds an "Ah" or "Uh" to the beginning of the word. Happened once here but I've got a lot better at catching it, and the words I wasn't sure about were ones I could actually work out.

[Great Order]

First helldive, three mission morty. It was an actual pain vortex, basically no downtime between the bots but every single one was a success and extract. Didn't get all the bot factories on the last, but still.

At one point I spent literally five minutes running from a group of bots, only to run into another, then another, then another. Somehow survived all that until I was able to reach my squad which gave me enough time to reload my recoilless and kill the hulks.

Helldivers 2

[King Zultan]

Not sure if this counts but it sure felt like one to me, I've got lower loot settings than I normally use and No Hope on and I managed to get over 800 liters of JP8 from the pump at an army helipad. So much for No Hope limiting the amount of fuel spawning in pumps because that's the most I've ever seen spawn in the pump at the helipad.

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Cataclysm: DDA

[Great Order]

So many of my Bannerlord woes have been solved through the judicious use of a lance.

The thing does 500 damage. I'm not playing on realistic damage (yet) so it's not quite right but even so it's absurd, kills out everything in one hit if I couch it.

[Akura]

Discovered that a pump-shotgun with slug rounds slaps. It can kill a polar bear in a single stealth-headshot, though hitboxes are awkward to make that fairly difficult to pull off... which is where the pump action really helps. I also came up with a patrol pattern that encountered a polar bear every run, yet short enough to be done finished with the entire hunt in a single game day.

Which was necessary because I was doing a mission that required the delivery of 125 arctic pelts, which are dropped only by polar bears and arctic moas, the latter of which spawn infrequently in an entirely different part of the map that is otherwise swarming with snow wolves. Also had to deliver 5 rifles, 200 rifle rounds, 50 incendiary, and 120 buckshot shells. As well as over a hundred pies, dozens of fish curry, 300 oxite, and medical tonics to a different delivery point.

All in all, the mission took 11 hours, 25 minutes, more or less to the second. Granted, the time limit was 30 days(real time, doesn't run when closed). I still took the time to kill two wolf bosses, and tame an arctic moa to send to orbit for later missions.

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Icarus.

[Great Order]

Got given a castle. I entirely expected it to be besieged, but I did *not* expect it to be besieged five times in pretty rapid succession.

Three times I had to take the sneak-by-the-defenders method that sacrifices a chunk of your men, three times I repelled the besiegers. The other two was me bringing a huge fuck off army to flatten them, and the final I caught them on the way, summoned an army, waited in the castle and witnessed the summoned army, rather than attempt to join me, attack the besiegers of their own accord.

I do need to replenish my troops though, I've gone from 180 to 100 and that's with intermittent recruitment drives.

Bannerlord

[heydude6]

After 135 hours of playtime and a 9 month break that I thought I might never come back from, I finally managed to send a rocket to space and start producing space science. It was a long journey. I had to learn a lot of things as I tried to manage the continent sized-chunks of biter territory I conquered, but I made it to the stars. Now other planets await.

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Factorio Space-Age.

[Akura]

Doing mission 9 of the campaign, which is brutally hard compared to every other mission so far. I've already had to restart two or three times because I get overwhelmed too quickly. It starts with a scripted immigration wave of 40 people(you start with 30), no time to build housing for them, and a condition that if until you build a cabaret one random citizen dies a year. Immediately after building the cabaret, you get another scripted wave of 8 college-educated people and a condition that until first build a grade school followed by exporting hundreds of llama wool, one person becomes a Rebel a year. Then you get another wave of 20, and a condition of reduced export prices by 20% until you build two shopping malls(expensive, requires a lot of power and imported goods), which can be mitigated to 5% by pissing off China in scripted event. All that is on top of an island with relatively poor resources and building space, and those scripted waves come along with normal immigration.


Anyway, I manage to get things stabilized, first by letting enough people starve that I could get humanitarian aid, while also building cheap tourism. I start building up on the middle area of the island, where there's excellent farmland for coffee and pineapples. At some point I noticed that my palace guards all quit somewhere along the line... which is bad because there were already 4 Rebels. Then the rebels attacked one of the pineapple farms. I gave up on any hope of saving it. The notification showed it was 4 Rebels vs 1 Army. Except the palace was still empty. Then I see it, El Presidente myself, running up the road to face the Rebels personally.

I don't know why El Presidente thought that an easily-replaced farm was worth the danger. It didn't matter, though. He/I promptly ran up to the rebel squad and shot one right in the face. The others fled. The battle was won.

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Tropico 4.

[Mathel]

I made a mass-summoning druid build.

A Stran Druid of Mehtar, with Psychomorphism, Grove cult, Vitakinesis, Piercing Vines, Innervation and Invigoration.

A summoner I was. A bunch of allies would spawn on entering an area, and whenever I'd stand still or pray, I'd get more.
Whenever any of my allies would hit an enemy, the enemy would get entangled in brambles and bludgeoned.
Whenever an entangled enemy was hit by my summons, they'd get bled for 5 times (later 10 times) amount of the entangle stack. Which, due to my mass-summoning habits and the fact that entangle lowers evasion, tended to rise very fast.

It helped that I found a staff that burnt 5 enemies whenever I'd stand still, and a scythe that entangled more foes.

During the whole game, I didn't directly attack even once, and was only hurt near the end.

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Paths of Achra